An evolutionary stable strategy describes tactics employed by individual organisms when competing with one another for a given resource. These tactics can be behavioral or structural, and the organism does not consciously choose them, but adopts them...

In game theory and behavioural ecology, an evolutionarily stable strategy (or ESS; also evolutionary stable strategy) is a strategy which, if adopted by a population of players, cannot be invaded by any alternative strategy. An ESS is an equilibrium...

The evolution of resistance by insect and weed pests to chemical pesticides is a problem of increasing importance in applied ecology. It is striking that the evolution of resistance by target pest species in biological control is much less frequently reported, particularly in control...

ABSTRACT Maternally inherited microbes that spread via male-killing are common pathogens of insects, yet very little is known about the evolutionary duration of these associations. The few examples to date indicate very recent, and thus potentially transient, infections. A male-killing strain of Wolbachia...